GRE Word List
MALADROIT
lacking adroitness : inept
The meaning of the word maladroit is lacking adroitness : inept.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |